When it comes to Hollywood remakes of acclaimed foreign films, I admit I’m usually one of those purists that shakes my fist in rage that the original was better! Learn to read the g-d subtitles, lazy Americans! You are missing so much! Lucky for you, and, more importantly, for the Americans involved in this remake …
A British jazz band is discovered in a small club by a music journalist, and is offered the lucky break of becoming the house band at a top notch London Hotel in this 1930s-set mystery-drama. What starts as a fantastic-looking period-piece with fresh, interesting central characters (a black jazz band being adopted by rich, white …
Told with an unflinching eye by director Steve McQueen (Shame, Hunger), the story centers on Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor, in a riveting performance that has Best Actor written all over it), an educated, free-born black man living in New York in the 1840s. He’s got a home, and a wife, and two kids… and a …